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Seamus, gotta re record.

Well, the title says it all. Shit happens and it's one of those. or maybe but I highly doubt it.. it was recorded right and unfortunately reverb is put on first and very wet.

Drumbus vs Kick/Bass Bus

Totally jealous of your late 90's setup. Regardless, see the bussing as a way to control rhythm/accentuate it. If you have a super rhythmic low end then I would try and control that via a bus toget...

Auto pan or delay on your hi hats?

Auto pan will give you the exact same sound panned left to right (generally sounds nice on 16th). Delay will give you a different texture from the first hat that can ping pong or mid side (especial...

Kulpa getting ready for a dj

Alright, so it's all good. Here are changes you need to do before friday. 

1. Up hat in the middle not on the left.

2. Random fun sends on the main stab

3. Secondary stab in ...

Wouter's feedback

The drums are a tad too loud but only in the mid. Whatever happened  with processing, half it or delete it. That should solve the problem in one go. The next thing is the percussion is way way...

More vocal tips

Can saturation not be harmonic.. (no it can't). But it can be inharmonic (even-odd harmonics). For the rest I give a lot of tips on vocal processing and specifically setting up. 

Geoffrey remade da funk

Absolutely brilliant job on the main sound. There are a few things that are misplaced but all the ingredients are there. So, just please finish those last parts off (get obsessed :)

Javier's room

Gessafelstein

It all comes down to one of those auto filter boxes and letting it be driven hard. I can't tell the notes in one go but at the end of the day if you set the glide up correct and get the right notes...

What speakers to get

If you are producing and have no treatment than you can get the prettiest once you want. If you want to mix instead first fix your room via acoustics.  

Wouter's feedback

Might be able to use a clipper on the stab

Limiter vs Clipper 2

Again, use it for a bad mix/bad master or if you have to go death magnetic loud. Personally I would fix anything that is messing with the limiter too much in the mix. You can clip those tracks, or ...

Limiter vs Clipper

In the specific case to dBora. Make two busses. One for Staccato and the other for Legato. Short burst of sound vs Long sustained notes. On the Short sounds plop the clipper on the Long sustained g...

Soothe2 what is it and do you need it?

Another kickdrum rant

Thanks Wessik. I needed that

Yalcin Efe and his chain

My thoughts on his mastering chain is the same as always. The more you do the worse it gets.  He is a perfect example of overthinking. I highly suggest you watch Dan instead: 2021-07-28 08:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post

How to radio edit and rambling

Bit of rambling as well. But, I do get to the point eventually

Four Tet FM bass sound

Four Tet used FM. It's a UK thing and I absolutely love it haha. It's super easy to do. Just adjust open up operator. Use A as the sub, B into it with the coarse up level up and set the decay short...

Drums, just slap them silly

/here is a general video on drums. It all comes to compression, not cutting too much and making sure you slap the banana's out of your drumbus. That way you will always have heavy drums

Wouter's mix feedback

Regarding the stereo field you did a great job. I would highly recommend putting the drums up and piano down. 

A trick to get your Lead up front and be spacious

Make a send, pop on what ever you need it to be. In this case a reverb and delay group and after put a compressor that side chains to the lead. Space will appear more after the lead is played. As f...

Four Tet sound and how I reverse engineer in general

It's a sample played in a sampler of any type without warping. Pitch is played via a keyboard as you can hear the steps. Does not have to be a keyboard btw but you can just hear the jump in pitch.&...

Stereo image and mono compatibility

Use a correlation meter. If you are in the +1 area all of that will be mono compatible. Even if you have stereo information. All the elements that are below 0 will be out of phase and that is not t...

Last Q&A

This will be the last Q&A as I am loosing a bit of focus and feel I am missing people's questions. So, next up will be a reverse engineering video

Thank you guys for being awes...

Q&A 7

In this video we go over:

1. LUFS short term vs integrated
for hours and hours of this kind of stuff check out https://the...

Q&A 6

In this video we go over:

1. Seamus's Dua Lipa bass and song. (In short cut less and it will thicken out the song)
2. Wouter's loop based track (in short more compression on the drums try ...

One hour long QandA5

A lot was covered. 

1. La Giangs mixing competition and what to do next time around
2. Matt's reverse engineering a Envelope Follower Guitar Pedal (get a pedal instead)
3. When I u...

QandA 4

In this video we go over:

1. How to get a mix more organic?
2. Flume sounds
3. Revisiting "got no problems from La Giang"
4. Difference between Internal Sidechain and Multiband
5....

Q and A 3

In this video we go over:

1. upgrading to a new mac book
2. How to fix wide sounds and do you really too?
3. Does saturation add punch? (NO) it does the opposite, dynamics( slower s...

QandA 2

From June on it will go back to normal videos with only one topic. In this one though we speak about the following:

1. Why EQ and how to EQ in for the low end
2. Should you release a "shit...